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IMPLEMENTS, &c. OF THE FARM. 



Bemtnfs Improved Cultivator or Horse-Hoe is so con- 

 structed that it is adapted to soils of different textures, being 

 furnished with shares of peculiar forms, according to the nature 

 ami character of the soil to be operated on. 



A very simple, cheap and efficacious implement is jn use 

 among the farmers along the Delaware for dressing the ruta- 

 baga, sugar-beet, &c. It was invented by MAHLON S. KIRK- 

 BRIDE, who calls it the hne-ta-baga. It is a great improve- 

 ment on the German scuffle; with the addition of the wheel 

 and lancet-cutter a man may easily dress an acre and a half 



r day, the rows two feet apart. The machine may be made 

 or about two dollars. 



THRESHING MACHINES. 



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The saving of manual labour, and that of a severe kind, by 

 means of the invention of threshing machines is perhaps be- 

 yond calculation while the grain is separated from the straw 

 in a more perfect and expeditious manner than has hitherto 

 been accomplished by any other mode. Nothing can be more 

 objectionable than the old mode of separating the grain by the 

 feet of horses and oxen; and no labour was more fatiguing than 

 threshing it by that tedious and defective instrument the 

 flail.* 



Threshing mills are driven by various powers, as by horses, 

 oxen, wind wind, and horses when wind fails water, or 

 horses when the water is deficient and steam. Some small 

 machines are driven by manual labour, and although they may 

 be adequate to thresh the crops of a small farm, yet we would 

 recommend the application of horse power in preference. The 

 machines ought to be constructed in the most substantial man- 

 ner. 



There are a variety of machines of this character in use, all 

 of which have their advocates. Those first invented were very 

 imperfect, but of late great changes and improvements have 

 been made in their construction, and they now rank among the 

 best and most important of the labour-saving machinery of the 

 farm. 



Allen's Threshing Machine is, we believe, among the best 

 of the kind. It occupies but a small space, but little power is 

 required to propel it, and it is afforded at a moderate price. 

 The thresher is a cube of two feet square, that is, two feet 

 broad, two long and two high; and such is its compactness, 



* Sir JOHN SINCLAIR. 



